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Microplastics and PFAS Are Dominating Headlines, But Lead is Probably Worse

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Lee Crawfurd

November 27, 2024

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll have noticed an explosion of recent interest in microplastics and “PFAS” (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)—sometimes called "forever chemicals". These plastics and chemicals are garnering headlines for good reason—they’re everywhere, and studies keep documenting new harms. It’s striking though just how little comparative attention lead (pb) gets, when we’re much more certain of its impacts.

We don’t yet have perfect comparable data on the relevant health burden of lead and other chemicals. But a 2016 WHO report found that nearly half of all deaths from chemical exposures were due to lead exposure. A recent estimate puts the total cost of chemicals in plastics at around 1.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States. Whereas lead exposure is thought to cost about 5 percent of GDP across high-income countries. A recent survey of experts found lead to be by far the most harmful of 16 common chemical pollutants.

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